Park just above the dam on the little side road off the main entrance road. You can walk the lake edge at least as far as the community house. You can also walk the dam to scope the lake. You can walk/roll down the dam to bird the brush and woods below the dam. Then drive to and park at the playground. Walk the lakeshore from the small fishing structure to the woods behind the playground. Be sure to check out the lake to the north of the playground, particularly if there are mudflats. A scope is very useful to scope the lake from both parking areas for ducks and the northern area from the playground for shorebirds and wading birds. 

Work the woods edge along the playground from the lake edge to the ball fields, then turn north along the edge of the woods or the asphalt path. Where the meadow opens out on the left, if the water levels are down, you can get back out to the lake to check out the mudflats from a different and closer angle. Continue along the asphalt path as it curves to the right, where a couple short trails lead to the small creek that feeds the lake.

Painted Buntings nest in the brush piles to the east side of the asphalt path and are often easy to see (or not—those suckers can hide in plain sight!). In migration, any clump of trees can be productive, including the woods around the southern ball fields.

The western edge of the lake can be reached by turning left onto Collard Street from the entrance, then right on N. Shipp St., and right again on a marked, but unnamed park road. This road is passable with regular passenger cars, but can be rutted. This area is safe enough during the day, but attracts a less desirable element at night and can be rather sketchy after dark.

Ducks in winter; shorebirds in migration; warblers and other neotropic migrants in migration; Painted Buntings breed and are easily seen in summer; Bald Eagles and Ospreys are common. Many rarities have turned up.

Best in winter; can be great in migration; slow, but good, in summer. Should always be checked if you're in the area, as great things have turned up.

Not so much trails, but the road leading up from the playground and the dam